(August 26, 2021 at 12:37 pm)brewer Wrote: The community does have a say, they can go to the hospital and ask that they expand services and capacity. If the hospital management rejects the request they can start soliciting/enticing competing medical care.
Talk about living in a dream world.... Simplest answer to that is it doesn't work that way and you know it doesn't.
BTW, I didn't mention it before, but the biggest hospital in my area actually owns 5 hospitals and numerous clinics in the metro area, including some smaller towns. There is very little competition.
My mother lives in a more rural area about 3 hours away and she is of course advanced in age. She and my father often have to wait several weeks for appointments to see a specialist. This is due to the fact that there just aren't enough of them around. Some of them are based in a large city and have satellite offices in a radius of up to 100 miles.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller
